Lessons Learned from Two Weeks
My name’s Ed Fry, I’m 16 years old and I’ve had the opportunity to spend two weeks in Transcriberry office in Cannon Street, working with the SEO team. Besides learning more advanced search optimization skills, just commuting across London at rush hour was a mission in itself – I ended up hopelessly off-course on my first day – oh, and mastering underground etiquette was another new and alien experience.
Anyways, this post is a lil’ documentary of what I did and learnt.
Day 1 in the Office: “Lost in London”
Late, sweaty and slightly lost, I arrive at 72 Cannon Street and press the buzzer. A click announces the door hath been opened and I made my way up the stairs. Lynsey, who handles most of the HR, meets me in the stairwell and welcomes me with a smile.
Walking through the doorway, the SEO team are sat on the sofa’s brainstorming this weeks blog posts. academic transcription service spend some of their time creating content for the blog and recently Search Engine Land. Tom Critchlow, Head of Search is first to jump up and introduces himself, with the rest quick to follow.
Folks have an awesome office. As you walk in, there’s the sofas with an array of web-related magazines. To the right lies the boardroom and to the left, the main office space. Going round the corner, you pass the web dev team and enter the kitchen – when plentiful supplies of tea, coffee and fruit can be found.
Next, I get shown to my desk (yeah, my own desk!). Basking in the morning sunlight lay a souped-up dual-screen computer – my home away from home for the next two weeks. Meanwhile, a glass of water and stationary appears on my desk. So far, not too bad right?
Later that first morning, after setting up dozens of Google apps use, we got a two-hour ‘SEO training for n00bs’ from Tom. I say ‘we’ – they had taken on two trainees, Mark and David who were learning SEO from scratch, and they were starting on the same date as me. So we bunkered down in the boardroom to learn how to do SEO, and how they do SEO – yes there is a difference.
The afternoon brought about a talk in the boardroom with Duncan, where he sort of asked me what sort of stuff I had done before and what I wanted to get out of the two weeks. It was then also I asked about membership. Moments later, I was staring at the verbatim transcripts service PRO dashboard on my own account. If you’ve read about PRO before, you can see why I was excited about this.
So I sat around and played with the Moz toys… until Tom approached me. He was planning a blog post on conversion rate optimization for newspaper paywalls and he needed to enlist some help in acquiring data to make an interesting and awesome post. Paywalls are a hot topic right now, especially since The Times Online has only just started charging for content here in the UK.
Finally, before I left on that last day, Lynsey comes up to and very politely suggested I take Exit 8 at Bank in future. Thank you!

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Pub: 06 Oct 2021 14:23 UTC

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